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INOGATE & Energy standards

Standards enable access to markets and build trust, ensure good practice, increase competitiveness, protect consumers, improve efficiency and reduce risk. They enable technology transfer among countries. Standards should work together with the policies and regulations of companies, countries and regions. Where they are incompatible, consensus-building is essential to adopt and accept standards.

The lack of harmonisation of codes and practices in the electricity and gas sector are major obstacles to the convergence of energy markets between the EU and INOGATE Partner Countries (PCs). The old Soviet system, based on GOST standards, is being replaced by a new, voluntary system of standards which will reflect more fully the national standards of a country as used by its industry and its various stakeholders. Harmonisation with EU and International standards requires the adoption of new standards, amendment of existing technical regulations and development of new secondary legislation.

Since 2008, INOGATE has facilitated the adoption of 12 Euro-Asian Standardization Council (EASC) Inter-State gas standards by INOGATE PCs; they were based on translated EU and International standards. In addition to these Inter-State standards, EASC also provided the PCs with 100 translations of standards previosuly carried out by the INOGATE project. These standards are at different stages of adoption and readiness in PCs and are slowly being included as part of the National Standardisation Programmes for their adoption as national standards.

To prepare countries for this step, a series of seminars, conferences and study tours have been organised to familiarise PC delegates involved in standardization with how EU standardization systems work, the international bodies responsible for standardization (ISO, CEN/CENELEC, BSI) and important private companies that establish standards for industry around the world. INOGATE is supporting the establishment of technical committees on gas and electricity for the sustainable and effective harmonisation of specific standards in each INOGATE Partner Country.

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INOGATE sums up 20 years of activity at final high-level conference
14/04/2016 - Brussels, Belgium

Ministers, deputy-ministers and other high-ranking officials from INOGATE Partner Countries (PCs), Directors-General from the European Commission and European representatives of international financial organisations, energy agencies, the private s... Read more

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Accessibility and implementation of international technical regulations and standards in the oil and gas sectors in Georgia (Workshop)
12/04/2016 - Tbilisi, Georgia

The fundamental European standards have already been adopted by some countries in the INOGATE region. However, its implementation is delayed due to the inaccessibility of the secondary documents, i.e. technical regulations and standards of the ... Read more

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INOGATE & Energy standards

Activity Title ▴▾ Date ▴▾ Status ▴ Location Type
Harmonization methodology for the adoption of international standards and detailed presentation of the two selected high and low voltage pilot standards 09/12/2010 - 10/12/2010 Completed Kiev (Ukraine) Event
Seminars & Workshops
Study visit 17/01/2011 - 21/01/2011 Completed Brussels (Belgium) Event
Study visits
Final conference 08/02/2011 - 08/02/2011 Completed Kiev (Ukraine) Event
INOGATE Meetings
Meeting of the INOGATE Country Coordinators and Working Group Members 18-19 May 2011 18/05/2011 - 19/05/2011 Completed Brussels (Belgium) Event
INOGATE Meetings
1st Meeting of the Working Groups on Energy Cooperation between the EU and the Black Sea and Caspian Sea Littoral States and Their Neighbours - 29/03/2006 Completed Brussels (Belgium) Event
INOGATE Meetings
Meeting of the INOGATE Country Coordinators and Working Group Members 13-14 December 2011 13/12/2011 - 14/12/2011 Completed Brussels (Belgium) Event
INOGATE Meetings
AHEF Project Fiches 01/01/2010 - 18/01/2012 Completed Country Requests (AHEFS)
Event
PPF Project Fiches 01/06/2010 - 18/01/2012 Completed Country Requests (AHEFS)
Reports and Studies
Event
SEMISE Case Stories 18/01/2009 - 18/01/2012 Completed Reports and Studies
Country Requests (AHEFS)
Event
SEMISE Methodological Approaches 18/01/2009 - 18/01/2012 Completed Reports and Studies
Comp A: NEW ITS Workshop for EU Delegations on Project Activities 26/04/2012 - 26/04/2012 Completed Kiev (Ukraine) Event
Training Course
INOGATE 15th Anniversary Report - INOGATE in Milestones 1996-2011 14/02/2012 - 14/02/2012 Completed Publications
INOGATE Annual Report 2011 30/11/2011 - 14/02/2012 Completed Publications
Reports and Studies
Translation of 3rd Energy Package of EU Directives 30/11/2011 - 14/02/2012 Completed Publications
Reports and Studies
Recruitment of Network of Experts 21/03/2012 - 06/04/2012 Completed Publications
Comp A: Internal Training Course 23/04/2012 - 24/04/2012 Completed Kiev (Ukraine) Training Course
New Guidelines & Application Form for Assistance under the ITS Ad Hoc Expert Facility (AHEF) 01/07/2012 - 01/04/2015 Completed Country Requests (AHEFS)
Event
Comp A: Working Group and Country Coordinators Meeting 29/11/2012 - 30/11/2012 Completed Brussels (Belgium) Event
INOGATE Meetings
Comp A: Promotion of the INOGATE Programme in Oil and Gas Forum in Ukraine 23/10/2012 - 25/10/2012 Completed Kiev (Ukraine) Other Event
Comp B: ITS project presentation to the EASC meeting and conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan 22/05/2012 - 22/05/2012 Completed Almaty (Kazakhstan) Event
Other Event
Final Reprt of ITS 15/02/2012 - 15/02/2012 Completed Reports and Studies
Regional Seminar “Moving towards a new approach on standardization & harmonization of Electricity & Gas standards and codes” – Belgium 29/01/2013 - 30/01/2013 Completed Brussels (Belgium) Event
INOGATE Meetings
INOGATE Newsletter 14/12/2012 - 31/01/2015 Completed Publications
Publications
Status Report 2011 30/11/2012 - 30/11/2013 Completed Publications
Reports and Studies
ITS.AHEF.33.GE - Harmonisation of electricity and gas standards (Establishing Technical Committees) 07/12/2012 - 07/12/2012 Completed Tbilisi (Georgia) Event
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